Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi has announced enhanced version of its digital archiving solution, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform.

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform V2.0 claims to support up to 20 petabytes in an 80 node archive system. It claims to reduce the number of server nodes required to scale, resulting in lower heat emissions and power consumption and simplified management.

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform uses open, standards-based interfaces such as Network File System (NFS), Common Internet File System (CIFS), Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) as well as storage management standards such as the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).

Hitachi has also introduced an encryption solution for customers looking to simplify content management and ensure continuous archived data protection. It allows a customer to store their security key within the Hitachi Content Archive Platform and secretly share that key across multiple nodes within the archive.